Skaven
- Prime figures black.
- Drybrush a medium brown or gray onto the fur.
- Paint all the armor and weapons Flat Aluminum.
- Paint the clothing.
- Wash the entire figure with Paynes Gray.
- Highlight the fur with the base color mixed with some white.
- Highlight the clothing.
- Paint any wood Raw Sienna and wash with Raw Umber.
- Paint the eyes red and highlight the pupil with a touch of orange.
- Paint the hands and feet magenta.
- Highlight the hands and feet with light pink.
- Pick out nails and teeth in white/beige.
- Paint the shield.
- Base with railroad flocking.
- Seal.
If you're
painting plague monks, the fur and feet will be painted to same way are regular Skaven but
I like to paint their robes dark greens and purples in the style as Nurgle figures.
Here are two other techniques from Packmasters Bob Lippman and Jim Williamson.
Jim's Technique
- Primer white
- Use a really loud color and ink the robes. (don't worry about spillover)
- Drybrush robes in two stages.
- Paint the fur medium gray.
- Ink the fur with a brown or grey or black.
- Drybrush the fur in one or two stages.
- Pick out the details on the model.
Bob's technique 
- Paint face, hands, feet and tail bronzed flesh
- Paint arms, legs, top of head, sides of face (basically all fur) dark brown
- Chestnut wash all the fleshy parts.
- Drybrush light brown over dark brown (snakebite leather or polly-s canine yellow)
- Drybrush bronzed flesh back over the flesh when ink is dry (optional)
- Paint robes either dark purple or dark green or dark red
- Drybrush robes in highlight shade
- Paint weapons chainmail if metal, brown with tan highlights if wood
- Paint toenails bright red, front teeth white, pupils bright red
- Add white, yellow or red trim on robes if I'm feeling up to it
- Detail skaven runes on trim of robes if I'm REALLY feeling frisky.
I use a
special paint called Gunze Sangyo Aqueous Hobby Color
on glass like the poisoned wind globes. This dries to give a very wet shiny look to the
globe as if it were real glass.
For more information on Skaven, check out Bob Lippman's Bob Lippman's Skaven page